the other mike
Diamond Member
The brutal history of Mao and Stalin are often just a brief chapter in our history books, and this is a mistake...perhaps a purposeful one ?
It should be common knowledge to Americans, but it isn't. And it may be that we're heading in that direction ourselves if we're not careful.
In this lecture, Jordan Peterson explores the dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism, often of the most murderous sort, employing as an example the work/death camps of the Soviet Union.
Buy The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is arguably the most important book of the twentieth century.
It should be common knowledge to Americans, but it isn't. And it may be that we're heading in that direction ourselves if we're not careful.
In this lecture, Jordan Peterson explores the dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism, often of the most murderous sort, employing as an example the work/death camps of the Soviet Union.
Buy The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is arguably the most important book of the twentieth century.
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